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After ~1.5 years using emacs keybindings in IntelliJ, I couldn't code for more than 20 minutes without pain.

I no longer have any extended pain due to:

1. Modal editing. I use the boon package for emacs, but basically vim

2. Sticky keys. Basically, I don't have to hold down any modifiers, I just press Ctrl then press N for example. Or two Ctrl to lock it, NNNNNN, then Ctrl to return to normal. On macs this is in the Accessibility app under Keyboard. It doesn't work so well with Shift + mouse scroll though.

3. Kinesis advantage 2

4. Dvorak

I still sometimes get a bit of pinky pain since I shift and ctrl with my pinkies. With sticky keys, modal editing, and mechanical switches in the Advantage 2, it's not really a problem.

I learned that the macbook keyboards aren't that bad if I use modal editing and sticky modifier keys. Also I need to be careful to avoid so-called "ulnar deviation" of my wrists. This means I lift my wrists, let my fingers hang down more, so I can keep the wrists neutral while hitting shift etc.

I don't think Dvorak helps much, but I still like it. It was intentionally put together. I think it helped to learn Dvorak and the concave key well of Advantage 2 at the same time. I never learned qwerty on the Advantage 2 or Dvorak on macbook keyboard. I want to try the programmer's dvorak layout as well for lisp.
Yes, I think Neuralink is working on that problem! I'll just connect mine directly to Google Cloud!
Interesting although a tad confusing image names (alt attribute).
I saw them because I have uBlock Origin set to block media elements over 20 KB.
From the FAQ on their pricing page:
"Can I acquire a mix of licenses?
No, all users in the group need to be on the same plan."

Which is frankly stupid. You make more money from 20 devs on ultimate and the rest of the company (100) on silver than you get from having 25 devs + essential managers on the ultimate plan and no one else using it at all.
Let alone the number of customers who will look for 120 licenses for the entire company and dismiss the entire product suite as they can't afford it.
To Jordan Chariton exclaiming in all caps:

> How are journalists supposed to chronicle history if YouTube — and others — are outlawing it?

Regardless of what YouTube says, they are an advertiser-friendly entertainment website. Why in God's name would you use it to "chronicle history"?
Which is a fine solution for you, but not a majority of people
It looks to me like this design concept is meant as a browser for consuming the web of documents, i.e. pages meant primarily for reading. A news article or a blog post has very few legitimate reasons for using Javascript. (Perhaps some very advanced interactive charts/graphs/maps?)

You'd obviously want to use a different browser to run sophisticated webapps.
You didn’t edit your comment minutes afterwards. It was at least 1 hour afterwards.

And sorry if you actually do prefer those gender terms. But honestly, it sounds like you’re just making shit up. I’m assuming you’re just a young white kid. I’ve met many of you in the tech industry who act like that. “Oh, I said something stupid and fucked up, let me pretend to be ‘woke’”. People like you exhaust me.
Not sure if you know what you're talking about. Python has always been a strongly typed language.
Hey neighbor, I disagree, though switching my VPN gateway to our DR one in NJ vs our primary in Chicago cleared things up. For about an hour and a half though, remote desktop was struggling, even though my speed tests were fine. I'm on FIOS.
I've used CircuitPython for one production hardware project which is in the wild. Safe to say that the increased draw on the included battery and higher memory usage weren't a concern here, but they are both significant. Developer productivity is through the roof though.

I'd say the biggest pain points for me (unless I'm missing something/they've added more stuff recently) were created by the lack of support for what feel like production standards in software development. For example, the logging library is a toy, and unit testing is non-existent unless you isolate all your CircuitPython-specific code and run tests on your dev machine using CPython.
I'm confused about this. Is there good reason to believe China would publish the real numbers?
Chat roulette. Supposed to be a sort of speed-dating inspired conversation system. It quickly descended into random people showing off genitals. Sometimes by first acting normal and then... The sudden reveal.
Several ESP boards are supported [0].

[0] https://circuitpython.readthedocs.io/en/latest/shared-bindin...
Do you have any evidence that this contributed to the actual act?

If anything, this just provides good evidence that will put the idiots in prison.
In a free market you can choose who your corporate “overlords” are. So; which are you for?

Should the government prevent monopolies from having free speech? Because telling google or whoever what or what not they allow in their private platforms is anti free speech.

0r should the government simply prevent monopolies so you have the choice to go somewhere else to consume whatever frothing angry garbage you wish to consume?

You don’t get to have it both ways but both are contrarian to ridiculous libertarian ideals- funny how that works.
The article is talking about Google's suppression of independent reporting content that regularly appears on the news. It has nothing to do with anyone being killed.
It’s going to be in the next edition of Fluent Python, but that says September release.

Docs and the relevant PEP are your best bet for now.
That's not exactly true, bigtable still has some indexes. You're just restricted to one per table and only on the row key. Instead you spend time finding the right row keys for each value that you're going to want to look up. Picking bad keys will still lead you to have terrible performance, since you'll be looking up the wrong thing to get what you actually want.
True, I didn't know this word existed like that. I would have been skeptical to use it, since it is so similar to the word in portuguese.
The Ultimate Hacking Keyboard supports a trackball or trackpad attached to the right half. The expansion modules just recently became available though so it may be hard to find reviews or people with hands on experience.
Disagree. We should build better standards so that JavaScript is not necessary to consume content. We should also separate apps from web pages.
sudo unattended-upgrade --dry-run

Looks like I get a new sudo!
So this?

( wget http://mymirror/big1.iso; wget http://mymirror/big2.iso ) &
Honestly curious what bad decisions you’ve encountered? I’ve used Gitlab CI/CD on ~20 or so projects of varying complexity (small to enterprise) and have found it enjoyable to use each time.
Yeah, that is the cost of gatewaying any of these things. Nothing works with anything. Doing the conversion on a server you control is the best you can do and is good enough for all practical cases and gives you convenient access to siloed systems like Signal.
Let me get this straight - are you saying “vaccines cause autism, we just don’t have the proof yet”?
The code is waaaay over my head, but I see a function called "findAccuratePeakFrequency". Is that using as input something like an array where each occurrence represents a frequency and the value represents the loudness at that frequency? When I first tried to use WebAudio for my little app I tried using input like that and simply looking for which frequency bucket had the highest number. That didn't work well at all. Is this function, though, using the same kind of input but using more complicated math to get a better answer?

Then I switched to very simple autocorrelation and then I switched to a fancier autocorrelation-based method called "Yin".

Also, There's also a comment "The logarithmically binned spectrum has a resolution of one cent". Does that mean that there is a bucket for each 1 cent? When I was using WebAudio I think the the buckets were something like 14 units of frequency apart (hz?), and I didn't discover a way to get finer resolution.
Point of clarification: By Cython do you mean Cython or CPython?
> when there is a water pipe behind the walls a plumber (a good one) would also put a plate in front of it

Where are you located (roughly)?
Having assisted in remodeling of 7 homes in the US (IL, WI, CA) built between 1880 and 2005 I haven't seen this.
Wouldn't other nation states presume it was a psy-op as well?

Also regarding the CIA ESP projects, are you saying that Project Stargate[1] and the Gateway process[2] were disinfo, or not technically run by the CIA? I hadn't thought about them in that regard, I figured it was more a case of "we think the Russians are doing this, so maybe there's something to it".(V.P.Perov's alleged experiments with rabbits on submarines published in 1984)[3]

[1]https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/collection/stargate

[2]https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00788R0017002...

[3]https://arxiv.org/pdf/1312.1148.pdf
A circuit python is basically an ouroboros. This should be its name.
I wonder what the most common word will be? I'd guess between "covid" and "Maddie"
I think the issue people have is the public spends about 1.4 trillion on patented prescription drugs per year globally which is more than 10x what drug companies are spending on R&D. Especially when manufacturing and distribution is such a small fraction of this cost.

While time value of memory explains some of that it’s still a huge discrepancy. Advertising etc make up the difference and while cost effective for the company, their harder to justify as a fraction of drug prices. Especially when over prescription is so harmful due to side effects and adverse drug interactions.
I think breaking the pillars of the modern web is kind of the point here. JavaScript is necessary for web applications and it can be enabled manually for those, but it shouldn't be needed for static text.
> Why in God's name would you use it to "chronicle history"?

Because for better or for worse these platforms have become the public square. They are where modern life happens.
Here in Australia I have noticed on news.com.au news articles I have been seeing "combat menswear" ads all over US or trump related articles.

Very strange.
> Fair enough but what do you recommend?

MirageOS unikernels like were mentioned yesterday? Get away from running network services on Linux entirely?
I took up the violin just a few years ago---my midlife crisis: neither cheaper nor less noisy than a motorbike---and it's been fascinating to dive into the maths of music in a way that my school music teachers were never able to satisfactorily explain.

At first I too was tempted to build an app just like this, but when I mentioned this to my teacher, she made it very plain that the only way to learn intonation is: hear, move fingers, repeat. Anything that gets in the way of making that feedback loop as tight as possible---devices, tuners, even conscious thought---is a distraction. In hindsight I think she's right. Though I too am still a barely endurable amateur, my intonation has improved to the extent that it feels like I have grown a new organ in my brain that connects my ears directly to my fingers.
"Future versions of Racket CS" appears twice on the graph. It still understandable though.
This code is advertised as a security tool, is it not? The only reason anyone runs sudo is because it (supposedly) improves their security. I think some responsibility comes with that.
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Agreed, this is the problem with Gitlab's bloat; the more features they add, the harder it is to justify a cheap price-point like the old $5/month -- and everybody's idea of what should go into the $20/month tier is going to be different. You can't disaggregate the offerings to pay for just the pieces you are interested in.

If they are focusing more on the Enterprise side of things, I could see it being a good idea for them to split out the licensing and billing for different offerings; see Datadog for an example of the opposite extreme, where every service is optional, and you pay (handsomely) for whatever you use.

If Gitlab split their offerings into a few packages, say $10/mo for k8s integration, $10/mo for security, $10/mo for the Jira replacement that I've never touched, and so on, they could potentially get more stickiness - users would be using the top-tier functionality for the modules that they care about, instead of missing a few killer features that are stashed away in the gold tier. I'm not paying $100/mo for a Gitlab seat, but I would have considered $20-30/mo extra for the k8s/prometheus CD integration without having to pay for all the rest of the top-tier features I'm not interested in.

This might help Gitlab to focus a bit more, too, as they would be able to see exactly what product lines are bringing in the most revenue, and focus on making those better.
I treat it as a different "instrument". I explicitly chose to use the Norman layout on my ergodox to further distinguish it from my laptop keyboard (which before covid-19 I had to use a lot).

See https://www.metasnake.com/blog/what-i-use.html
So following this line of thought, if a bunch of HNer's can see through it, why couldn't a nation state?
It’s disgusting that I’m being downvoted when the main point in my great-great-grandfather post was explaining about the effectiveness of the trial mentioned in the article.
Not whether some random Internet weirdo prefers to inject themself...
It’s also one of the diagnostic criteria for ASD, one that almost all autistic people share.

They typically can’t deliberately choose the subject of the focus, but it’s usually the case that any bit of deep knowledge is useful for something.
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My unraid box I bought from Tom is sitting in my closet has been across the country 3 times now, is about 13 years old, has 14 drives in it now and still runs great. I love it.
> Just like REST and OOP and a host of other things that “everyone gets wrong”, you have to consider that if everyone gets it wrong, maybe the messaging isn’t very good in the first place.

In my experience, it just means that an army of ignorant middlemen grabbed hold of a concept and ran too far with it.

OOP / UML / XML / etc. etc. They all actually solve problems very well. But the people who taught those concepts were mostly selling snake-oil under the guise of XML or whatever.

If any particular paradigm becomes useful: the parasite class of marketers / con-men come out and sell fake versions of the strategy. Eventually, the con-men completely corrupt the concept and we just have to move on to the new concepts that haven't been corrupted yet.
SVG++: header-only C++ SVG parser
I downloaded the app and tried to sign up, but it said "Invalid request data!" after I submitted the form.

Is it supposed to work ATM?
If you came up with two great ideas to do the same thing and only want to develop one.
MIUI12 Battery Issues
With the recent rollout of MIUI12, the battery is draining very fast. Earlier in MIUI11, my Resmi note 9 pro Would last for 3-4 days on a single charge. Now it is barely lasting 1-2 days. Xiaomi officially claims that MIUI12 is 'not optimised' for some devices.

Should we downgrade to MIUI 11? Or wait for a fix via OTA?
Why not a browser extension instead?
The link between neighboring satellites in a 22-satellite-per-plane constellation at 550km altitude comes at its closest 480km above the ground. The link between next-farthest-neighbors comes at its closest 270km from the ground. The link to the second-farthest-neighbor is not in line of sight. Optical effects at 270km or 480km altitude are negligible; 99% of the atmosphere's mass is below 30km altitude. In theory you could go all the way down to an 8-satellite plane at 550km and still maintain line of sight and freedom from most of the atmosphere's interference.

Satellite-to-ground optical laser links are another matter, but you can always route a few hops around weather systems.
Switching to a vertical mouse cleared up my arm pain. I tried many vertical mice. Evoluent's wired vertical mouse has been my favorite since 2009. Each new version is essentially the same, just with different surface finishes.

Years later, I got wrist pain in both hands. Switching to a tenting keyboard solved it. I've used the GoldTouch V2 for 7 years now.

Do not try 3M's vertical mouse with the thumb button. I used it for a few months and developed severe pain in my thumb. Fifteen years have passed and my thumb still occasionally clicks when I bend it, due to that injury.
There is a substantial percent of the population whose yearly medical care costs exceed their income.

For example, about 7% of the world’s population collectively has some sort of a rare disease, which is theoretically treated with orphan drugs. There are also people who chronically live with cancer who end up living quite a long time. Diabetes, (type 1 or type 2) with or without complications, is quite expensive in the US.

I personally have 2 rare immune mediated neurological diseases affecting my peripheral nervous system. The only medication that has kept me in pharmaceutical remission is subcutaneous immunoglobulin (intravenous immunoglobulin did not work), and I have tried 10 different treatments plus combinations of them. When I was living in the US, my private commercial insurance paid, under contract (not the amount that was being billed which was much higher!), $100 per gram. In other words, they were paying $23,500/month for my blood product or $282,000/year.

In Europe, where I live now, the price goes for 40 Euro (about $50/gram).

Anyways, you should watch this, “The World’s Most Expensive Drug” (which it no longer is), which is quite revealing: https://youtu.be/0uYCw5EDX8U

Alexion (a pharma company) started the trend and now the have drugs that cost millions per year over, that are required over the course of a lifetime: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/25/health/drug-prices-rare-d...

There is a good documentary on it (requires a Hulu subscription): https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/23/the-weekly/rare-diseases-...

Anyways, the prices of these drugs are an insult to the intelligence of a lot of scientists and (formal) engineers.

I also have type 1 diabetes, and because of my training in electrical engineering, I could tell by reading patents on analog insulin patents that a 10 mL bottle of insulin cost somewhere between $1-$10 to produce. Turns out that it costs between $3-$6 to produce. At its worse, in the US, it cost $350 per 10 mL vial for analog insulin.

Anyways, the best way of dealing with this situation is by having even the most disabled people working to offset these prices, along with having universal healthcare with price controls. Unfortunately worker protection against discrimination in the US is very poor and when your health benefits are tied to work then it just does not work. Patent law also needs to be reformed, and if the prices are obscene and unjustifiable, then they should be seized.
I'd love a tiny browser with uBlock Origin, reader mode, and user scripts built in. I don't really need much else than that.
A good cheap solution for me: par2 of your dataset, glacier deep archive, with s3 bucket versioning. If you want to be even more safe, turn on MFA delete on the s3 bucket.
I get that these are expensive... But they might be a career saver.

Listen to your body. If your fingers and wrists are telling you something, take action. It doesn't have to be an expensive split.

(I have an ergodox with the Norman keyboard layout with other firmware goodies as well as running AutoHotKeys to give me emacs bindings all over the place.)
Would you say it's significantly better than python for quick and dirty work? Or if not what still supported tool comes the closest for you.
if a tree falls down in a forest and nobody hears it, does it make a sound?
There's a way to make a 7 inch laptop with a minimum of both effort and cash. Zagg sells a hinged laptop-style keyboard case for 7 inch tablets. I paired mine with an Amazon Fire. It's a little on the thick side, but still tiny. The Fire is too slow for daily stuff, but it does ok with Termux. The Brave Android browser has full keyboard shortcuts and works decently too. Since I found both the Fire and the keyboard were on sale at the time, I managed to create this 7 inch laptop for around $50.

I'm not sure how useful this thing is, but it's kinda fun and easy way to try out the form factor. Would be better if I could find a Windows / Linux tablet in that size, but I haven't yet.
"Websites should only be using JavaScript to enhance the overall user experience. If a web page fails to load properly with the absence of any scripts, then that site is poorly optimized and deserves to be ignored*."

As much as I would like for this to be true, it is unfortunately wrong. I routinely browse with the NoScript Security Suite add-on, and more than half of the sites I visit require JavaScript. In some cases the page will not even load. In many cases the page will load, but none of the links will function.

I wish that web design standards required non-JavaScript enabled browsers to function, but I just don't see it ever happening.
A lot of people who work to earn $200,000/yr work really, really hard doing things no reasonable person would want to do.
It would be anonymized data, obviously, and it would be helpful to know whether or not we are getting a handle on this pandemic. Apparently we have no idea whether infections are increasing or decreasing over the last couple of years. If I were a public health official, I would really want to know that information.
I wonder if generations of humans born and raised on Mars might start adapting their eyes to blue wave lengths!
I am gonna steal that, its neat
Eh it's called a frugal "web browser" - I get the purpose of a document reader.
I doubt it even needs to be a weapon. Maybe we can just transport disagreeable humans to other planets and forget about having wars with them?
Add a long time thinkpad user and someone who has a mech keyboard (unicomp) with a trackpoint, I thought these would be common place... Still waiting for a trackpoint but I have a nice big CST trackball between my split keyboard until then...
Prediction: Somebody gets banned on Twitter or Reddit over this.
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And the Monroe Institute still selling Hemi-/Holo-Sync etc. Have you ever tried binaural beats, btw?
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/world/new-zealand-mosque-s...

Maybe they don't want livestreams like this?
Another one to look at is snapraid [1]. Open source, also supports mix of disk sizes, adding/removing, and drives are usable alone. Negatives are it does scheduled (not real-time) parity, and you have to run mergerfs yourself on top of you want a consistent view.

I've been using it for a few years, and it's survived one drive failure (which I replaced with a disk twice the size). I originally had it on a Ubuntu server but have since migrated to running in openmediavault (which does all the setup for you), on a vm within proxmox server.

[1] https://www.snapraid.it/
That must be a bulky cable :-)